Current Status and Progress on Drug Therapy for Advanced Neuro-endocrine Tumor
Neuroendocrine neoplasm(NEN)is malignant tumor originated from peptideric neurons and neuroendocrine cells.NEN has significant heterogeneity and clinically manifests a series of biological behaviors from inert,low malignant to prominent malignant.Compared to neuroendocrine carcinoma,neuroendocrine tumor(NET)is a well-differentiated and lower malignancy type of NEN,and drug thera-py is the main treatment for advanced NET.This paper reviews the current status and progress on drug therapy for advanced NET.